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Ernie:
Get your facts straight please.
You didn't spend one single minute, certainly not 8 hours as you wrote, getting anything ready for me. I was seriously considering buying your entire parts tractor at one time and still am. I decided to try first to further my attempts to get my old engine rebuilt.
You told me that you had a "cash buyer" on line for the tractor, so if I didn't buy it right now you'd sell it to him. I told you to go ahead because I wasn't quite ready to give up on finding parts to rebuild mine. I guess it was your "cash buyer standing by" who was the one that "dissapeared into thin air".
As far as the parts issue: No one, including you, has been able to get the parts I need at any price. If you had, I would have already resolved this problem. Maybe you have a good stock and easy access to oil filters and fan belts but I needed oversize pistons and rings, as well as all other bearings, gaskets and misc. rebuild parts. A dozen Yanmar dealers, including you, told me they were not available.
I have posted numerous messages in several different Yanmar news groups TRYING DESPERATELY to find the parts or someone to rebuild my engine, to no avail. If you had these parts all along I sure wasted a lot of time e-mailing, calling and Faxing Yanmar dealers all across the US and in other countries for more than a year now if it turns out that you really do have them.
I have quite enough fan belts already, thank you. I need the rebuild parts for an unsleeved FX24D engine. If you have them or could get them, why did you tell me otherwise?
Everyone who sells used Yanmars, to make a sale I assume, advertises that parts are easily available, which is not at all accurate. I doubt that any other people who own broken down Yanmars would have spent nearly as much time and energy looking for a solution to an engine problem as I have.
Go look again at my recent 11/05/04 posting in Tractorbynet.com - Yanmars where I (once again) searched for a rebuilder who could get parts. With 1300+ viewers and 35 replys (including one from you) not one person could name one single place in the entire USA that could do the job and/or get the parts.
Everyone either wrote that I was foolish for buying the Yanmar in the first place or suggested that I buy a used engine from you. Not one person (including you) could tell me where to get the parts I needed.
Boy, are you full of it!
You may be a nice guy, honest, hard working, etc. but you seem to have forgot everything you told me in the past. I've got every right to complain about this and you've got no right, whatsoever, to gripe about it. I sent you an e-mail earlier this evening offering to buy your parts tractor as I have now (finally) exhausted my quest to locate parts.
Stop and think back. Try to remember what really happened between us. You owe me a big fat apology.
Dennis